[EAS] So, wouldn't you think after the missle fiasco that somone would have learned something?

[Rich Parker]

A bit of an update - apparently, the THIS IS A TEST portion WAS at the
'top' of the alert message - but because there were dozens of county
FIPS in the alert, and they 'all had to be read' right after it said
"This is a Tsunami Warning for the following....", the thing either
timed out after 2 minutes, or people simply missed hearing it because
of the incredibly long laundry list of locations that had to be 'read'
before it got to the 'this is a test' portion.

Apart from the original F'UP, this seems like a pretty big 'flaw' in
the basic EAS alerting protocol - perhaps 'before' the laundry list of
locations, there should be a way to have it first read 'THIS IS A
TEST' - then the type of alert, then the long read of locations.

Probably take another CSRIC to get that fixed - heaven help us all.....

-rp